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J. LEVI. METHOD OF INDIGATING TELEGRAPHIU MESSAGES.

No. 495,744. Patented Apr. 18, 1893.

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JOSEPH LEVI, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

METHOD OF INDICATING TELEGRAPHIC MESSAGES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 495,744, dated April18, 1893.

Application filed January 16, 1893. Serial No. 458,468. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH LEVI, a citizen of the United States,residing in the city and State of NewYork,have invented an ImprovedMethod of Indicating Telegraphic Messages, of which the following is aspecification.

In transmitting telegraphic messages, keys or explanatory tables have insome instances been made use of, the receiver and sender having a copyof such key and using numbers or names in the transmission of themessage, which the receiver understands by referring to the key. Thesending of letters or numbers as a signal code is in some instancesprohibited except upon payments based upon the counting of each signalas a word, and even then errors frequently arise because the signalsbeing arbitrary are liable to be wrongly transmitted or inaccuratelyread and understood by the receiver.

In the present improvement I make use of a key or system of notationbased upon the use of consonants as the indicating letters of suchsignal, and in making up the message to be transmitted vowels are addedto the consonants to form words, and the words being transmitted asusual telegraphically are understood by the receiver, and upon turningto the key and following the consonants in succession as they appear inthe words transmitted, the message is fully understood.

As an illustration of the presentinvention, I have shown upon theaccompanying drawing the representation of a part of the key or signalcode in which the indicating letters of the code are consonants, andthese consonants may be single or double or even triple and arranged inany desired order, and the articles or names accompanying each signalmay vary according to the business of the parties, or as may be desiredor arranged between the sender and the receiver.

I have illustrated that in the code of signals 8 might stand for shoes,0 for boots, .d for hooks and eyes, h for blue cloth, &c., and

also numerals may be set in a column adjacent to the signal letter, andfor example the letter where it occurs means that the consonantsfollowing refer to numbers, and m indicates that words are to follow,and the letter 4" may be used to indicate that the message is to berepeated, and r 4 that the repeated message has been received.

As an illustration of the manner in which this improvement in indicatingtelegraphic messages is to be used, the words pased and hamoc might betransmitted, the 1) meaning numbers, .9 cl 7?. meaning 136. Them wouldindicate words and the c boots.

If the Word kisped was transmitted according to this code it would meandozen.

shoes No; 3.

It will be apparent that this mode of arranging a telegraphic code ofsignals allows for the insertion of vowels to make up words, so that thewords transmitted do not of themselves convey any meaning, and that ininterpreting the words the consonants only are followed in understandingthe designations in the key and the letters and Words upon theaccompanying sample key only indicate the manner in which the consonantsmay be used according to the different businesses in which the keys maybe employed in the interpretation of the word messages transmitted.

I claim as my invention- The method herein specified of indicatingtelegraphic messages, consisting in the transmission of words and theuse of the consonants of those words in connection with a key orprearranged meaning to be given to each consonant, so that the receiverby eliminating the vowels of the words understands the message by thekey, substantially as set forth.

Signed by me this 12th day of January, 1893.

JOSEPH LEVI. WVitn'esses:

GEO. T. PINCKNEY, A. M. OLIVER.

